What is "chroniclers"

Usage examples of "chroniclers".

And yet the chroniclers of the Great World had not considered the hjjk-folk the masters of the earth, for all their sturdiness and adaptability: that was the place held by the sapphire-eyed ones, so it was written.

That magical talisman which the generations of chroniclers kept hidden in the casket that held the books?

He looked into their souls and he beheld a vast procession of empires and realms that had risen and fallen and risen again, an endless immortal cycle of grandeur, kings and queens, warriors, poets, chroniclers, a host of accomplishments so great that they baffled his understanding.

Perhaps it was in the nature of chroniclers to make mysteries out of the things they knew, she thought, so that the tribe would depend all the more upon them for special wisdom.

Normandy, English chroniclers knew nothing of their doings or their wars.

English chroniclers questioned travellers, scholars, ambassadors, as to what was passing abroad.

English chroniclers grew inquisitive about revolutions in Norway, the state of parties in Germany, the geography of Spain.

The chroniclers had never stated the nature of the services, and the descendants, up to the present day, had not thought it expedient to probe this matter, although they were aware that it was only the timely death of the Queen in 1603 that saved the early Fischel from losing the generosity of his Queen, together with his head.

In spite of the cry of lamentation which the chroniclers carry down to us over the misery of a land stricken by plague and famine and rapine, it is still plain that even through the terrible years of Stephen's reign England had its share in the universal movement by which the squalor and misery of the Middle Ages were giving place to a larger activity and a better order of things A class unknown before was fast growing into power,--the middle class of burghers and traders, who desired above all things order, and hated above all things the medieval enemy of order, the feudal lord.

Henry, the chroniclers tell us, careful of his people's prosperity, was anxious not to annoy the knights throughout the country, nor the men of the rising towns, nor the body of yeomen, by dragging them to foreign war against their will.

It was also said of them that they married sister to brother, but the chroniclers of Taillefer's court may have desired to slan der that tribe because of the great trouble they caused the emperor.

Plor Killivash, who was one of three assistant chroniclers, was as usual finding it hard to take his work seriously in Hresh's absence.